Capstone Project Proposal Guidelines

** The ed tech faculty expect that your capstone project and portfolio will clearly demonstrate your learning from the MEd program coursework. You should address the following “objectives of the program for successful students” in your portfolio components and project:

 Have expertise and skills in software use and integration of educational technologies

 Have a vision of roles and impacts of technology in educational environments

 Have developed a philosophy of technology integration based on theories of learning and experiences in the program

 Have a deep understanding of current research about how human beings learn

 Have an awareness of and know how to implement standards for teachers and students

 Be active participants in self-assessment and personal growth

 Have an understanding of the use of technologies and their integration in a culturally, linguistically, and physically diverse learning environment

USE THE FOLLOWING AS A TEMPLATE FOR YOUR PROPOSAL CONTENT AND FORMAT

Title This is the title of your project.

Overview

This section is a brief description of your project.

Rationale

This section should provide a rationale for why you want to do this project. Think about answering the following questions: o What will you learn? o What meaning does it have for you? o Why is it important? o Who will benefit? o Is it sustainable or will it carry on after you’ve finished, and how?

Content

This section should describe what the content of your project will be.

Audience/Learners

This section should describe who would be affected by, interacting, or learning by using your project materials.

Setting

This section should describe where (location and type of environment) and with what equipment, if any, might be required.

Objectives/Goals

This section should describe what you want anyone associated or connected with your project to achieve. This could be seen as learner objectives, goals, or outcomes, but could also be project goals or objectives. If you think you have both, then this section should be split into two sub sections: i.e. “Project Goals” and “Participant Goals.”

Product/Artifacts

This section should describe the actual final product you will be developing and how it will be produced. For example, what media will it be produced in (i.e. paper, video, web pages, etc)? Here you should also describe why you selected the media you have.

Analysis

This section should describe how you plan to do a summary analysis of the implementation and assessment of the instructional product, i.e., How will you determine what went right, what went wrong, what might be revised? You should design and create an assessment instrument for evaluation/assessment of your project/product, and have at least 3 people evaluate it, which you will report on in your defense.